Have a bone in my body, i will not fail my son. I promise him im going to fight stand for him and speak for him because he is no longer there to speak for himself. This is something we demand. We paid a horrible price to be here. [indiscernible] that eric garner was killed. I am so sorry for that. Michael brown, im sorry that it has to end like this. But this is not the end because of the sea of people who said we who stood up and said we need justice. We cannot close the book. We have to carry on until justice for all, equal justice for all the victims. Despite where you are coming from. Whether sean bell or leslie work or gwen, we are all here. Please do not forget us. Dont forget that our sons died. So that we can open up the book and review what is happening, so that we can open up conversation around the nation, so that we can Start Building communities, community relations, and finally, when that happens, when we have strong laws, good cops policing our neighborhoods, then we can
Toy gun. No questions asked. His community organized. They marched to city hall, asking for justice. With policeved snipers on their rooftop. This is my hometown of santa rosa, california. This is what it feels like. This is an epidemic in our country that knows no color, latino or brown or asian. Its an epidemic that they are too afraid to address. What gives me pleasure and what gives me excitement is to know when you look around the room night right now in the halls we are out here, all colors and creed. [indiscernible] i asked today for our latino brothers and sisters who are afraid to come out and voice their pain. Two out of three latinos are afraid of police harassment. Two out of three. They are embarrassed to come out. Theked them today to take strength of the mothers of trayvon martin, the strength of mother, the strength of eric garners mother, the strength of Michael Browns mother, to come forth and unify with the Africanamerican Community so we can be strung together. Stro
25th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a Tuesday Morning. 7 00 a. M. On the west coast now. We look at some of the damage, some of the damage in ferguson, missouri, overnight. This is a Community Deeply troubled right now. These were not the images anyone wanted to see. Theres some question about the timing of the release of this information. The grand jurys decision coming way earlier in the day, and yet they waited until dark neness t make this information known. And that couldnt have helped the situation. One of the questions police will have to answer today. The protests, we mentioned, quickly turned violent, at least a dozen businesses set on fire. Other businesses had their windows smashed and why broken into. In all 82 arrests have been made in ferguson. The faa has restricted flights into st. Louis airport overnight and the anger is not limited to mi
Another case of mistreatment of blacks by police. More demonstrations are expected later this week. Craig boswell has our report. Reporter freddie greys family was joined by protesters. Some overcome with emotion. Theyre looking into the questions of grays death. He was arrested after he and another man ran from officers. Gray was seen being carried into a van by a video. Another video also obtained by wjz shows officers removing gray from the van to shackle his legs at a stop during the drive to the western district. At the end of the ride an ailing gray was rushed to the hospital where he died sunday. Autopsy results say the cause of death was a severe spine injury. Police say they dont know what happened. Demonstrators say they will take their case to baltimores mayor on thursday with a rally at city hall. Organizer Jamaal Bryant wants the six officers involved to face charges. I want murder charges for all of them because there was no history or record of him having a spinal injury
Gray suffered a fatal spinal cord injury while in police custody. Hiss death sparked protests by demonstrators who see this as another case of mistreatment of blacks by police. More demonstrations are expected later this week. Craig boswell has our report. Reporter freddie greys family was joined by protesters. Some overcome with emotion. Theyre looking into the questions of grays death. He was arrested after he and another man ran from officers. Gray was seen being carried into a van by a video. Another video also obtained by wjz shows officers removing gray from the van to shackle his legs at a stop during the drive to the western district. At the end of the ride an ailing gray was rushed to the hospital where he died sunday. Autopsy results say the cause of death was a severe spine injury. Police say they dont know what happened. Demonstrators say they will take their case to baltimores mayor on thursday with a rally at city hall. Organizer Jamaal Bryant wants the six officers invol